On May 30, 2009, at 12:00 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 12:00 AM -0700 5/30/09, Mike Greensill wrote:
I thought it might be interesting to copy and paste a posting from
Andrew at MM that was on the Finale Forums.
Broadway Copyist Handwritten Music Notation Font. Finale 2010
includes the new Broadway Copyist music notation font, created by
Robert Piechaud, designer of the esteemed November and Medieval
music fonts. Inspired by the golden era of handwritten Broadway
scores, the Broadway Copyist font offers a lighter appearance.
I wonder if they just mean "lighter" as in "less bold than the
JazzFont" which might be okay, and easier-to-read text fonts in an
inkpen style. That would be a winner for me. I am seriously thinking
of designing my own font family that would be along the lines of Bill
Duncan's chord font, but in an inkpen style. I would really like an
inkpen-type font that looks like the different sizes of characters
are drawn with the same pen, instead of bigger characters looking
like they were drawn with a thicker pen. I may not know what kind of
can of worms I am opening, but...
Having played quite a few of those "golden age" Broadway books, all
I can say is that this is not necessarily the recommendation that
MM marketing seems to think it is!
Oh, yeah!
I do find it fascinating that with the almost simultaneous release
of Sibelius 6 and Finale 2010, it seems like the discussions on
this list lean 90% to asking "what's wrong with it," while the
discussions on the Sibelius list lean 90% to "how soon are they
shipping?"!!!!! Or at most, to whether it's compatible with such-
and-such a hardware setup. 'Nuff said.
Yeah, but we all know that it has more to do with the average Finale
user being a bit of a crank (I include myself among those!) It's kind
of like oboists being nervous, tubists being jovial, and trumpet
players being self-confident. It's just the nature of the job. If
they ever made oboes that sound great without being dependent on a
little sliver of wood, tuba parts that read like the Brandenburgs,
trumpets with cack filters, and a notation software that does
everything perfectly right out of the box, all those people would
develop different personalities...
Christopher
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